"I've come to is that hope never has to die. Love doesn't work like that. Love isn't being hopelessly committed someone that isn't speaking to me, it's about being hopeless devoted to becoming the best person that I can possible be and my ability to share that with the world."

You are correct sir, one who loses hope is in a bad situation. Your comment about love. ...Here's my persoective on that:

1. can't make someone love you back (which you said)
2. You have to love yourself before you can truly love someone else. You may think, oh, well i do love myself. Okay, then, let me ask you:

• Do you find fault in almost everything you do?
• feel like no matter what you do you are not good enough
• someone compliments you "great job! "....you think to yourself "well, thanks but it wasn't that great "
• you're a harsh critic of yourself i.e. (that was such a stupid thing to do! !), etc

If you answered yes to any of those questions then you are engaged in some self loathing. These are things that I struggle with. Usually are deep rooted. But you can't really fully love and care for someone else if you don't love and care for yourself